October 2006 - Posts
Vista and Longhorn Filtering with WMI
James Senior has a post on his blog “Views on Vista” that details how to build WMI filters for Vista and Server 2007 (Longhorn). For Vista and Server 2007 essentially you look for OS version >= 6 and for Vista a product type that = 1 and for Server 2007 a product type = 3. Check out his post below for the exact syntax. For Vista SELECT Version, ProductType FROM Win32_OperatingSystem...
End of the Year - Here Comes the Pressure
It is that time of the year again. In just a few hours we will be going to a pumpkin patch/Christmas tree farm to pick out pumpkins for carving. This annual trip always reminds me that the year is almost over. If your company follows the calendar year, or close to it, you can expect to start getting more and more calls, emails, and visits about making sure you get this done, finish this, where are...
Cut Through the Voice Mail Prompts
Source . Two money-saving cellphone keystrokes Tech journalist David Pogue offers two keystrokes that can save you call time - and hence money on your cell phone bill. The first interrupts a voicemail greeting and the annoying Silicone Sally "When you're finished recording, you may hang up or press 1 for more options" routine, and instead and skips right to the beep: Verizon or Cingular: press * Sprint...
Geek Squad Goes High Tech?
Gizmodo reports on a new Geek Squad facility to help address complaints by the public on slow turn around and quality of service. What in the world would they be soldering? Do you think these guys and gals are as qualified as that robot to solder on your motherboard? BTW that is Fabio soldering that loose transistor back on to that MOBO. '> Listen to this article
WSUS is Getting New Vista Categories Today
Source . Hi Folks: There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server over the next day or two, under the Windows family. The new category will be titled “Windows Ultimate Extras.” Windows Ultimate Extras are programs, services, and premium content for Windows Vista™Ultimate. The Windows Ultimate Extras category will contain all Extras for Windows Ultimate as they are...
Vista Delayed
According to reports the Vista RTM has been pushed back to November 8th due to a last minute bug found by the QA team. This will also make the scheduled business release of November a very tight fit. More here and here . Anthony Clendenen '> Listen to this article
Data Protection Manager 2006 Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=93b4745c-a10b-44a9-9117-06fc4865b9f4&displaylang=en Brief Description Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 Service Pack 1 (SP1) enables you to protect more types of file servers, provides an interface for configuring your Microsoft Update selection, and includes updates previously released as individual hot fixes...
New Version of Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displaylang=en Specific features of Windows Defender include: A redesigned and simplified user interface – Incorporating feedback from our customers, the Windows Defender UI has been redesigned to make common tasks easier to accomplish with a warning system that adapts alert levels according to the...
AZ Systems Management User Group Meeting 10-26
From Mike’s email. Don’t miss out if you are in the area! We are planning on having our second meeting on Thursday, October 26th. Remember to create a logo for our user group, as we will be voting on one at the next meeting. Please send me your logos by Wednesday, October 25th. You can find more details and register for the meeting at the following link: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id...
Windows Easy Transfer Companion for Vista
The Windows Easy Transfer Companion transfers actual applications from your Windows XP PC to your new Windows Vista PC and will be made available as an extended public beta version to coincide with the launch of Windows Vista. It supports transfers via network connection or the Easy Transfer Cable and eliminates the need to manually reinstall programs when upgrading to a new PC. It will be freely available...
New Downloads From Microsoft - Vista AJAX and Active Directory
Microsoft ASP .NET AJAX v1 Beta ASP.NET AJAX is a set of technologies to add AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) support to ASP.NET. It consists of a client-side script framework, server controls, and more. AD Forest Recovery – Best practices white paper. This paper is a best-practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® directory service forest, if forest-wide failure has...
Vista RTM October 25th?
Could it be as early as next week? I guess we will see. Anthony Clendenen Source Vista may be headed to factories next week By Benjamin J. Romano Seattle Times technology reporter Microsoft could be ready to release Windows Vista to manufacturing as early as next week, a milestone that would signify the end of a protracted development process. It could also set the company on a course to launch the...
Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack
Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement tools from DesktopStandard, and the remote repair tools from Wintenals. For this price you could...
SoftGrid + Folder Redirection + Group Policy = No More Down Time? No More App Installs?
Think back to the dumb terminal days, back when you only had to worry about your servers staying up. If an end user had a problem, they moved to a different terminal or you replaced it. Okay I wasn’t really working in IT back then but I have heard stories. Well imagine this…You give a user a computer with only an OS installed, their computer is in an OU that through group policy locks...
Eileen Brown's WebLog : A new Beta experience for applications
Microsoft is scheduled to make a big announcement today in this regard. They will be making Softricity part of a bundle of software that should make our IT lives much easier. I think Eileen has a great idea, this was something I had mentioned to someone just yesterday. But it would require that at least 50% of testers actually installed instead of virtualized it. But you could virtualize it to see...
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